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Pagpag is the Tagalog term for leftover food from restaurants (usually from fast food restaurants) scavenged from garbage sites and dumps. [1] [2] Pagpag food can also be expired frozen meat, fish, or vegetables discarded by supermarkets and scavenged in garbage trucks where this expired food is collected. [3]
I remember back in the day when Isko Moreno was starting out in show business, he was interviewed on one of those talk shows and he said that he and others would scrounge the bins behind a Jollibee and would look for the chicken bones and re-fry them. That they called it pagpag. ‘Ano?’ Sabi ng host. “Pagpag. Kasi pinapagpag.”
May 30, 2023 · Pagpag is the Tagalog term for leftover or trash foods salvaged from garbage and re-cooked for consumption by the poorest Filipinos in the slum districts of Metro Manila. Despite being considered a survival food and a symbol of the poor Filipinos’ resilience, pagpag has become a controversial issue due to the health risks associated with it.
Jul 27, 2019 · Consuming pagpag leads to stunted growth in children and increases risks of hepatitis A, cholera and typhoid — but eating it is a fact of life in Philippine slums.
Apr 24, 2023 · With food prices rising relentlessly, Manila’s poorest residents are increasingly resorting to eating “pagpag”, a stew cooked with scraps of meat and bones scavenged from rubbish bins that ...
Apr 30, 2012 · In Tagalog “pagpag” means the dust you shake off your clothing or carpet, but in Fabon’s poverty- stricken world, it means chicken pulled from the trash.
Jun 14, 2021 · The practice of eating pagpag — discarded food waste from restaurants — crystallizes the desperate hunger for the poorest of the poor. The practice of eating pagpag is not new, but even here, the pandemic has made an undeniable impact.
Mar 16, 2014 · In the Philippines, these recycled meals are called “pagpag,” which roughly translates to “dusted off food.” Families scour dumpsites for what appears to be “still edible.”
Pagpag is the local term for these leftovers found in the mounds of garbage and disposal sites in the Philippines. It is a quintessential staple for the poorest of the poor and is not only a means to nourish and sustain but has become trade and livelihood for those who dare capitalize on it.
Feb 26, 2024 · Pagpag stands as an ingenious survival food innovation devised by the most impoverished Filipinos, symbolizing their unwavering resilience in combating hunger amidst food insecurity.
